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there was an iron curtain theaters used to use to prevent fires. churchill used it first in private. >> you know why? >> it was a favor for truman. that is where truman was from. >> let's get a slice of that speech. >> an iron curtain has descended across the continent. behind that line, like all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe -- berlin, prague, vienna, budapest, belgrade, bucharest. all of these famous cities and the population around them lying in rubble -- lie under the soviet sphere. >> why did you want to talk about this? >> i was inspired in my first book, and while this is in no way a sequel it represents thoughts i had. one thing i got interested in is the question why no people went along with it. what is the mentality? what are institutional pressures? why do camp guard do what they are told to do? i decided to write about this period right after world war ii, because it was a time the soviet union had reached a height, there was an apotheosis of stalinism. it was reinforced by the experience of the war.
there was an iron curtain theaters used to use to prevent fires. churchill used it first in private. >> you know why? >> it was a favor for truman. that is where truman was from. >> let's get a slice of that speech. >> an iron curtain has descended across the continent. behind that line, like all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe -- berlin, prague, vienna, budapest, belgrade, bucharest. all of these famous cities and the population around...
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he never used the term again. a and coville and others who worked for him, nannies would say to their children, little kids they are taking care of, the black dog is on him today. host: depression? guest: no, for the little children it was bad behavior or bad day, an expression nannies used, what would be called a bad hair day. it was not as used by these folks something we would call major adult depression. now, whatever churchill experienced in anyone 11 -- 1911 sounded to these doctors like a moderate depressive episode. he got through it. he doesn't mention it any more. years dirists would say he looked depressed and that created a depression word document and singapore just fell bismarck is on the loose, something else just fell, he is having very bad days and i don't think his cronies were using depression in a clinical sense. winston was utterly destroyed today. he was depressed. so, i concluded that if as freud if you can live and love and work you have your full mental health and he loved his family. he n
he never used the term again. a and coville and others who worked for him, nannies would say to their children, little kids they are taking care of, the black dog is on him today. host: depression? guest: no, for the little children it was bad behavior or bad day, an expression nannies used, what would be called a bad hair day. it was not as used by these folks something we would call major adult depression. now, whatever churchill experienced in anyone 11 -- 1911 sounded to these doctors like...
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i used his six-volume war memoirs throughout and marked them up. if we are in the week of the russian invasion, i went to churchill's memoir to see his take on it. his takes, as he said, this is not history, this is his case. by omission and commission there are lots the shadings and errors. you cannot take winston at his word. so i pretty much read his memoirs, pretty much in sequence. >> did you read -- william manchester's first two volumes? >> i've read them when they came out. i was one of the people back in 1988, 1989 -- i still have my copies. i reread them. the first several hundred pages of both and the last 100 pages of the second volume a couple of times in the last eight years. the preamble i did -- bill phillips and i came up with this. bill came up with it first. he was in a son of mr. manchester's pages and said, you have something here on page 90 of bills pages that really should go in a preamble. a character sketch. we are already 90 pages into the book and we hear his favorite scotch is johnnie walker red. let's pick up these para
i used his six-volume war memoirs throughout and marked them up. if we are in the week of the russian invasion, i went to churchill's memoir to see his take on it. his takes, as he said, this is not history, this is his case. by omission and commission there are lots the shadings and errors. you cannot take winston at his word. so i pretty much read his memoirs, pretty much in sequence. >> did you read -- william manchester's first two volumes? >> i've read them when they came out....
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some of the people who sat in with us have gone on to stardom. russ bahrenburg -- anyone who has seen the civil war documentary, he is the guitarist on it. i bartended, i worked at a cat food factory -- that was gruesome. >> how long? >> 5 or six months. then they demanded 60-hour weeks. you got a lot of overtime. >> you did not have a college degree? >> i have left ithaca college after a couple of years in the late 1960's. i thought sooner or later i will get it -- i love to read and study. i took my books ever were with me. >> how many children by your first marriage? >> 3. george, mary, and patrick. patrick is 20 now. he is at st. john's in annapolis, loving it. >> he does not take after his father -- a classical education, books? >> when he was five or six he was writing his own histories of medieval warfare. i stayed back. we played a wonderful video game, age of kings. you build your own castles and i let him play as much as he wanted to. he took to reading. he loves history, faulkner, he is a reader. so i just stand back. he will go wherev
some of the people who sat in with us have gone on to stardom. russ bahrenburg -- anyone who has seen the civil war documentary, he is the guitarist on it. i bartended, i worked at a cat food factory -- that was gruesome. >> how long? >> 5 or six months. then they demanded 60-hour weeks. you got a lot of overtime. >> you did not have a college degree? >> i have left ithaca college after a couple of years in the late 1960's. i thought sooner or later i will get it -- i...